Category : BBS Programs+Doors
Archive   : WAF165.ZIP
Filename : UNIX-WAF.AD

[] WAFFLE FOR UNIX PRODUCT INFORMATION --

Waffle for UNIX provides a BBS solution for a large number
of Unix flavors. Unix E-Mail and Usenet News are fully supported.

Some of the major features provided by Waffle are:

o Public messages

Public message bases are the core of the BBS system.
These can either be local bases, contained wholly within
Waffle, or shared with Usenet. A wide variety of access
and security restrictions may be applied to each area.

o External commands

Commands that execute Unix programs may be easily
integrated to the system, including shell scripts or
normal binaries. These appear to users as normal commands.

o Support for Usenet and UUCP Mail

Waffle integrates with your existing News and Mail
setup on your Unix system. News articles are kept in
their usual spool directory, no importing of articles or
storage duplication is required.

o Advanced mail features

User to user private E-Mail is kept within Waffle.
Advanced features are included, such as aliases,
forwarding, mail folders, mailing lists, and redirection
to specific programs.

o Administrative tools

Waffle supports many thousands of accounts. Even
20,000 accounts will not cause performance degredation.
Tools are provided to edit accounts, purge old users,
and other administrative functions.

o Security

Great pains are taken to ensure that ordinary remote
users are not permitted to access areas potentially
harmful to the system (such as a remote shell..)

Access to Usenet messages may be granted by "level"
or by group. Also, many privileges may be revoked or
granted on an individual user basis. These same
access techniques may additionally be used with file
transfer areas, external programs, or E-Mail.

Waffle maintains an extensive set of logfiles, which
record all "interesting" system events, in addition
to network and user statistics.

o File transfer section

File transfer section may be used with any protocol.
Any number of file areas are allowed, and support is
included for CD ROM devices. Batch downloads, file find,
new file scan. An archive lister to list the contents
of tar, zip, arc, and other popular formats.

o Support for NNTP

Usenet news may be kept on a remote machine, and
retrieved via NNTP (running above TCP/IP protocol.)
This frees disk space and allows news processing
load to be offset to the remote machine. Waffle is
the only Unix BBS to support NNTP.

o Platforms available

A/UX Apple Macintosh Unix
BSD 4.3 Berkeley Unix
HP/UX Hewlett Packard HP/UX
NeXT NeXT OS
Sun OS Sun Microsystems SunOS
Ultrix DEC Ultrix
Wicat Sys V Wicat's System V
Xenix SCO Xenix, 286 and 386 flavors
386/ix Interactive Systems

o Extensive documentation

About 400K of documentation is included.
Additionally, the source code is well documented.

o Support

Support is available by sending mail to
[email protected]. We will make an honest effort
to answer whatever questions you have. There is no
charge for support, so long as you are nice about it.

You will probably not need all the features listed above.

Those that you don't use are designed to stay out of your
way (for instance, if you don't run a dialup system, you can
still get full use of the system in local mode.)

Waffle licensing, single CPU:

Waffle v1.65 for Unix
Individual or Small Business ...................... $120

Waffle 1.65 for Unix
Commercial or Government .......................... $200

Upgrade from a previous
individual $30 MSDOS registration ................. $90

Contact us at

[email protected] ..ucdavis!vox!dell

Thomas E. Dell
PO Box 4436
Mountain View CA 94040


[] WAFFLE FOR UNIX SOURCE CODE --

If you would like source to the BBS, the registration is $120, or
$200 if you are a corporate or governmental entity. Small businesses
(fewer than a dozen employees) are eligible for the lower rate.

Anyone who has registered the DOS binary version may apply the cost of
binary registration to their DOS or Unix source license, of course.

The source is NOT distributable, but you may modify it to your heart's
content. This is intended to allow sites to modify the source to fit
their own needs. If you've made changes, please let us know and we may
be able to incorporate these for the general good; in this manner you
won't have to worry about reimplementing your individual changes as new
versions are made available.

Preferred methods of distribution are one of: send you 1.2MB or 720K
DOS disks (Note: 360K disks are too small); allow you to download a copy;
or by FTP. Contact us if you have special requirements.

You will receive the latest version, 1.65 or higher.

In case you were wondering, the source looks something like:

LINES BYTES FILENAME Version 1.65
===== ===== ========= =======================

829 17410 admin.c Admin command, user add/delete
1291 24425 command.c Most BBS commands
689 13129 deliver.c Mail parsing and delivery
504 8380 edit.c the Editor
676 14496 extern.c External program handling
1206 22905 files.c the FILES section
763 14969 folder.c Folder manipulation routines
1986 35684 forum.c BBS & Usenet message handling
825 14432 lib.c Utility routines
865 16729 login.c Login & newusers section
927 16804 mail.c Electronic Mail
279 4557 news.c NNTP Interface
282 5888 nn-unix.c Berkeley sockets interface
1058 19181 pass.c Password lookup routines
283 4697 share.c File sharing (DOS only)
1480 32389 startup.c System configuration
1063 20043 text.c File I/O, header routines
1373 26148 unix.c Unix interface (Unix only)
176 3350 usenet.c Spooled news routines
1097 20156 waffle.c Main program, common subroutines

55 1493 forum.h Forum format & parameters
61 1629 io.h I/O header file
69 1292 lib.h Library routines header
48 633 mailbox.h Mailbox file format and object
28 449 news.h News object
83 3071 nntp.h NNTP interface definitions
128 3201 pass.h Password file format
67 1420 privs.h Privileges
19 499 text.h Definition of text object
38 568 tree.h Index file format
155 3445 unix.h Unix interface header (Unix only)
122 2646 version.h Program configuration
302 6780 waffle.h Global declarations


[] VERSIONS, UPDATES, AND MODESTY ---

Waffle is actively supported software. New versions are released
when significant features have been added, and the changes have
proven stable.

We've been adding significant features for several years now at
a fairly constant pace, and it doesn't look like this will stop..

We feel that this is a damn good package. Knowing that not
everyone shares our views, we will listen to your groovy comments,
suggestions, complaints, questions, etc. and try to get an answer
or response back to you. You may contact us at the PO Box above,
by electronic mail to the author, , or by
calling the BBS number below.


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